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Born in Gardens Corner, South Carolina, Jonathan Green attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his B.F.A. in 1982 and continued independent studies in the United States and abroad for the next eleven years. Since his graduation, Green has exhibited annually across the nation and his style and subject matter has earned him international acclaim. Green’s oils are instilled with the sense of life that he knew as a boy growing up in the Gullah community of Gardens Corner. They reflect the interpersonal relationships that he forged with many of the people and events depicted in his images. They reveal his philosophy that an individual cannot be considered apart from his social environment.

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Mary Tinkler

March 3, 2013 at 12:41 pm

The summer that I interned at the Gibbes, the exhibition Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto was on view. It was the first time that I was introduced to celebrated local artists like Mary Jackson, Jack Leigh, Mary Edna Frasier and Jonathan Green. But, it was this painting that I could stand in front of for hours that summer. Despite the vibrant colors and the movement of the painting, I find that sadness exists in this painting. Seemingly isolated in her own world and certainly disconnected from the viewer, it’s hard not to wonder who “Corene” is and what she’s thinking about as she stares off into the distance.